Trujillo v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2010
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Dick v. New York Life Insurance · Alexander v. Delgado Ex Rel. Delgado · McGeehan v. Bunch · Jewell v. Seidenberg · Lucero Ex Rel. Lucero v. Torres
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until the adoption of the Rules of Evidence in 1973, the law in New Mexico was that a presumption ceases to exist upon the introduction of evidence which would support a finding of its nonexistence. Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. Horne, 65 N.M. 440 , 338 P.2d 1067 (1959); Morrison v. Rodey, 65 N.M. 474 , 340 P.2d 409 (1959); Morris v. Cartwright, 57 N.M. 328 , 258 P.2d 719 (1953); Payne v. Tuozzoli, 80 N.M. 214 , 453 P.2d 384 (Ct.App. 1969).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a presumption imposes on the party against whom it is directed the burden of proving that the nonexistence of the presumed fact is more probable than its existence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because the evidence is undisputed that [the decedent] was the owner of the ear in which he was riding at the time of the accident, you must find that [the decedent] was the driver unless [his] estate has proved that it is more probable that he was not driving than that he was driving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Candelaria
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.